Question? Anyone ever been in An ROTC?

[TankBuster]

If any one on the site was ever in ROTC or JROTC (or foreign equivilants) id love to hear bout it!

 

[Bombardier]

May I interject here to assist my non US friends....

A JROTC is the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) is a program put forth by the United States Armed Forces in high schools across the nation that train high school students in Leadership and Military Sciences.

I thank you

Oh yes a damn fine idea that may be of use here in the UK, what do our UK members think ?

 

[Hollis]

I was in JROTC in one of the high schools I went too. It was the only high school that I attended that have one(this was over 40 years ago). It was a large school in the Chicago area. There was about 500 students in the JROTC program.

I had a lot of fun in it. Sence I was a military brat i was interested in most things military.

 

[Bundu Basher]

In the South Africa of old, all high school attending white males (13 to 18 year olds) had to take Youth Preparedness (YP) lessons, once a week.
Junior NCO Rank was earned and leadership taught, with almost everybody learning to drill a platoon.

On this day, normally a Thursday, we all came to school in nutria miltary shorts, shirts and berets and basically spent a couple of hours drilling and being cadets.

It was also compulsory to attend the annual 'Veldt School' (Bush School) when you were 16 - which was spent being treated like a military recruit - drilling, fieldcraft, orienteering and team building - for 7 days non stop.

Digging out old memories now and showing my age!